I want to give a shout-out to Kitchen Aid

[MissMillie]

They made a standing mixer that LASTS, and then didn't mess w/ it.

I inherited my mixer--with a dough hook, beater (whisk) attachment and mixing paddle. It's probably 30 years old (possibly older).

We recently went looking for other attachments and it turns out that the attachments they sell for the newer machines FIT the older machines.

So we just bought a meat grinder attachment, and will be looking into the pasta roller in the future.

No need to buy a new machine.

[wyn borkins]

1. Another Very Loud Shout-Out to KitchenAid

Two marriages ago (about 1964, or so) my mom & dad gave me(us) a KitchenAid 6-Quart Bowl-Lift Stand Mixer for our 1st Anniversary.

That healthy mixer is still doing daily-duty with my first-born daughter and may last another life-time (or two) without a single problem.

Thank you, KitchenAid (!!!).

[Dunc]

2. Ours still works as well.

Not sure how old it is.

[Whip-poor-will]

3. A fine example

Good ain't cheap and cheap ain't good, never has been never will be.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. They are TANKS!

My current one is almost 15 years old and survived a fall from the counter while vigorously mixing some cookie dough about 5 years ago, still rattling on the floor when I rescued it. Not a dent or scratch on it! I put it on a silicone mat when using now.

[AverageOldGuy]

5. Ours is about 30 also.

Bulletproof. Damn thing is heavy and it gets heavier each year .

[Bumbles]

6. Things aren't built to last anymore.

My Cuisinart food processor is fifty years old. It's missing one of its little feet so it's a bit wobbly, like me. Otherwise it's chugging along just fine. About 40 years ago, the company replaced the shaft when it got bent trying to slice pepperoni and refurbished the motor. Customer service and durability, things from the past.

[FarPoint]

7. Yes they are magnificent.

I live in Dayton Ohio just south of Greenville Ohio where the headquarters of Kitchen Aide is located.....They use to have a Kitchen Aide Store there and had amazing discounts in the summer during Annie Oakley Days......I bought some mixers there for gifts....Oh, they use to also have Julia Child's mixer encased in the museum there too.

Anyways, I bought one used in Dayton/Centerville at a garage sale from an 85 year old woman in late 90's........she bought it in the 60's....I still have mine today and yes, new replacement attachments fit. I call my mixer Martha...she is eyed by all....magnificent machine...

[Lonestarblue]

8. Mine is 20+ years old so a newbie.

I have a Waring blender that is at least 50 years old and a food processor that is around 40 years old. Both work just fine. Products used to last. Now they're manufactured with planned obsolescence.

[3Hotdogs]

9. Pasta roller- - my grandfather was born it Italy. In the fall, my grandmother bought bushels of tomatoes and spent days

getting them into the Ball jar for winter.

Sunday mornings, my grandfather would break out a board and set it on the kitchen table. He would set up a volcano of flour and put water and eggs into the volcano and mix it with his hands. Then, through several stages of pasta roller. Finally, they were hung over two long dowels to dry.

Next, we would get in the car and drive to Natale's bakery to get Italian bread.

Sundays like that would go on until the mid 50's.

Once in a while, I can duplicate grandma's sauce by accident.

[BonnieJW]

10. My daughter is a pastry chef

She inherited my mother's Kitchen Aid which my mother received as a wedding gift in 1946. It still works, but my daughter just keeps it on display in the kitchen

[HeartsCanHope]

11. Love my Kitchen Aid Mixer, too!

Looking forward to 30 years+ with mine! Heard the pasta roller is lovely!

[Diamond_Dog]

12. Both my 30 yr. old Kitchen Aid stand mixer and 40 yr. old Cuisinart food processor work perfectly.

I had to send away for a replacement paddle for the mixer and a top for the food processor (My fault, I dropped the lid mechanism on the floor and it cracked). Both get a lot of use and work just fine.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

13. Man...

Think mine's about 40 years old, and my only complaint is that the thick paint where the paddle attachment goes in has cracked and a chip broke off. I was dreading having to strip and repaint it, but tempted to just replace it.

The only things older are my Champion juicers (I have a grain mill attachment to grind flour and was gifted a second one so they're side by side and ready to go), which are probably circa 1960, both gifted to me. They're basically 1/2 HP motors and heavy as hell.

Counter space? LOL 🤪

[Marthe48]

14. My Mom gave me her Kitchen Aid mixer

She got it in the late fifties, and we all used it when we learned how to cook and bake as we grew up. She let me have it after I got married in the early 70s, and I used it until about 1990. My husband got me a new one at that time. I gave the old one to my sister. I don't know how long she used it, but she hasn't told me it blew up. Both my kids have a Kitchen Aid, too. Amazing machine.

I remember making whipped Jell-o, a treat my grandmother made for us. I loved the bubbly texture. I got liquid Jell-o all over the counter and walls as I whipped it. Learned to let it gel a little longer before I whipped it. I wanted to make a dessert with whipped cream, one of my first tries. I figured more is better, so I whipped the cream longer, and turned it into butter. My Mom was very kind. She scraped it out of the bowl and we used that batch of homemade butter for cooking and toast. Lol

We had all of the attachments too, including the grinder. My parents owned a grocery store and they'd bring home the deli ends. We'd grind them up together and make ham salad. Always a unique flavor, because there'd be 3 or 4 kinds of lunch meat included.

[sinkingfeeling]

15. Mine is about 40 years old and now lives in Costa Rica.

[chowmama]

16. Mine's about the same age

It's been the reason I make bread as often as I do.

You get so used to them, they start to give you your own little signals. For example, I know I've used just enough flour in a white bread dough when there's a little sticky patch in the bottom at medium speed that just disappears at the highest setting. It needs to be a little stickier than that when it's a whole grain batch.

[Alsteen]

17. Unfortunately the latest standard machine isn't powerful enough to do bread dough anymore. You have to buy the big one.

Shame really.